Peec AI advertises 7 engines. What you actually get on Starter, Pro, and Advanced.

Look at Peec AI's marketing and the number that jumps out is seven — seven AI engines under one dashboard, the pitch every multi-engine AI-visibility tool leads with. Sign up for a real plan and a different number shows up: three. Every self-serve tier shares one pool of seven engines and asks you to pick three of them at onboarding — everything past that third pick is a paid add-on, and one specific engine, Claude, isn't purchasable at all on any self-serve tier, at any price. None of that is hidden exactly — it's the kind of detail that lives in a pricing-page footnote, not the hero section — but if you're comparing tools on "how many engines do I get," the honest answer to "does Peec AI cover Claude" is worth having before you're three months into a plan that structurally can't answer it.

Seven engines, three included, the rest billed separately

Peec AI's self-serve plans — Starter, Pro, and Advanced — all draw from the same shared pool: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. At onboarding, you choose three of those seven to track. Want a fourth? That's a paid add-on, billed on top of your plan price, for every additional engine beyond your initial three — independent trackers of this category converge on that same shape (a small included pool plus metered add-ons) even where they disagree on the exact add-on dollar figure, which we'll get to below. Functionally, that means the "7 engines" headline number describes the platform's total library, not what ships in the box — the number that actually matters is the three you get to start with, and whether those three happen to be the ones your buyers use.

Claude isn't an add-on. It's not in the pool at all

Here's the detail that doesn't show up until you go looking for it: Claude isn't one of the seven engines in that self-serve pool to begin with. It sits behind Peec AI's Enterprise tier, reachable only through an API integration you set up after a sales conversation — there's no public Enterprise price, and no way to add Claude to a Starter, Pro, or Advanced plan the way you'd add Copilot or Grok. If a buyer of yours is asking Claude specifically — and Claude's mechanics for deciding what to recommend are genuinely different from the other engines', not just a rebadged GPT — a Peec AI self-serve customer has no path to seeing that answer without booking a call and negotiating an Enterprise contract first. That's a real, structural gap, not a settings toggle you flip once you're already a customer.

Even the price of asking is inconsistent

Trying to pin down exactly what those add-on engines cost surfaces a second, smaller problem: nobody outside Peec AI seems to agree on the number. Independent reviews of the category this pass turned up quote add-on pricing anywhere from roughly €20–30 per engine per month on the low end to $35–165 on the high end, depending on which tier you're adding to and which tracker you ask — a spread wide enough that it's more useful as a signal about the category than as a number worth repeating as fact. (Our own verified figure for Peec AI's starting price is $95/mo, last confirmed 2026-07-19; a couple of tonight's sources list it closer to $89/mo — pricing pages move, and third-party trackers don't always catch the same snapshot.) None of this is a knock on Peec AI specifically — demo-gated add-on pricing is genuinely hard for outside trackers to keep current, the same freshness problem we've written about for fully demo-gated vendors — but it does mean "just check a review site" isn't the shortcut it sounds like when the review sites themselves can't agree.

Why "which three" is the real question

If you're comparing AI-visibility tools on engine coverage, "how many engines total" is the wrong question — the pool number is a ceiling, not what you're buying. The question that actually predicts what you'll see in your dashboard is: which three am I picking, and does that set include the engine my actual buyers use most? For most B2B categories that's ChatGPT and increasingly Claude, given Claude's real-time-information gating decisions run noticeably differently from ChatGPT's and it's a fast-growing surface among technical buyers specifically. If Claude is one of the three questions your buyers ask most, and you're evaluating a tool whose entire self-serve tier structure excludes it, that's worth knowing before the trial, not after the first invoice.

Where PingMyBrand sits on the same question

PingMyBrand doesn't run a pick-three model. Every plan — including the free scan, with no card and no signup — checks all four major engines your buyers actually use: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, every time, on every tier, with no add-on fees and no engine held back for an Enterprise conversation that doesn't exist as a public price. That's a real, structural difference in how the two products are built, not a marketing claim: you don't pick three and hope, and you don't discover Claude is missing three months in. Run the free scan and see all four engines' actual answers for your brand in about a minute — no signup, no sales call, and no engine you have to add on to see.